Teen who lured girls for gang of rapists jailed

Stephanie Knight lied to her victims saying she was taking them to a nightclub

Stephanie Knight lied to her victims saying she was taking them to a nightclub

Stephanie Knight lied to her victims saying she was taking them to a nightclub.

Instead they were driven to a supermarket car park, plied with vodka and cannabis then put through a terrifying sex ordeal at the hands of brothers Shahid and Amjad Hussain and their cousin Tanveer Butt.

The girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were taken from Blackburn, Lancs, to an empty terrace house in Accrington with no electricity.

One of the girls was ­repeatedly raped by all three men in an horrific night of abuse.

Knight, who was 17 at the time, wanted the other girl to perform oral sex on one man, but she ­refused.

Knight and Butt then stopped her rushing to help her pal, who was crying out while being raped.

Dad-of-two Amjad, 34, who was Knight’s boyfriend, later sexually ­assaulted both girls after threatening them with a knife as he drove them home.

One of the victims told police she often woke up crying, was frightened by a knock at the door and ­“hated Stephanie with ­every bone in her body”. All three men were jailed indefinitely at Preston Crown Court and ordered to serve at least seven-and-a-half years before being considered for parole.

Knight, now 19, who was convicted of conspiracy to rape and aiding and abetting rape, was sent to a young offenders’ institution.

Married dad-of-four Butt, 39, from Rochdale, was found guilty of rape, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting.

Shahid, 38, and his brothers were each convicted of rape and Amjad, who was out on licence from an eight-year jail sentence for robbery, was also convicted of conspiracy to rape.

Judge Beverley Lunt said the total lack of humanity shown by Knight and the men was “disturbing and horrifying”.